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I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I better get on the stick, as painful as that sounds, and do something about it. 

I have been busy, nevertheless, as hopefully my list of activities will indicate.  I felt that just blowing out a list of activities will suffice and then I can enhance the description of each as necessary.

June

Attended the Dramatist Guild conference, Playwrights in Mind, at George Mason in Fairfax, Virginia.

Applied for, and was accepted to, the Devised Theatre class at CPT.

Applied for, and was accepted to, Springboard at CPT.

• Andrew Jackson ate my homework: a racial farce

July

Met with Peter Roth every Wednesday to discuss our proposed new theater and the notion of bringing live TV to theater… ha ha ha.  No, seriously.  Have been developing the story bible almost continuously this summer.

Attended the first meeting of the newly-born Bessemer Project: consisting of theatre artists, Rachel Baird, Michael Parsons, Peter Roth, Jaclyn Villano, Michael Geither, Michael Oatman, Michael Williams, Jarod Witkowski, Dan Riordan, Claire Robinson May, and myself.

August

Got a bite from Athena Theatre with a request for the full script for Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber (sent the synopsis two years ago!)

Applied for the Creative Workforce Grant through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (hope the trend from June continues!)

Applied for an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist grant (hope the trend from June continues!)

September

Might be working with Jared Bendis on a written piece to supplement his work at Ingenuity.

I think that about covers it for now…

I feel somewhat remiss. My play, which received a reading at CPT under the title A Howl in the Woods, will receive a 5-week run November 20-December 20, 2008, at convergence-continuum. Yay! Merry Christmas!

The title was changed by Clyde Simon, Artistic Director, to Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber. Clyde has a thing about sexual innuendo in the titles. Well, sometimes it’s innuendo. Sometimes it’s pretty obvious. His thoughts on titles have been shaped on the anvil of experience though. The best-attended performance convergence had was Jeff Goode’s Poona the Fuck Dog; followed closely by Mac Wellman’s 7 Blowjobs. Chris Johnston wrote a play for convergence about homeless people who think they’re superhero’s in our oil-saturated, post-post-modern, post-industrial desolation–I forget the original name of it, it was something linke An Underground Comic, but Clyde named that one Spawn of the Petrolsexuals: An Underground Comic. Clyde has a good ear.

Regardless, I look very much forward to the run. To the process. I even follow Buried Child! That will be a grave disappointment to some, I imagine. I, of course, am flattered to be on the same bill as Sam Shepard…as well as the other very fine writers whose productions are going up this season. So far I’ve seen Mr. Marmalade and will see In the Garden this weekend.

Clyde and convergence received a rather nice write up in Northern Ohio Live, as well.